Matilda Jane Crumpler

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, aged 27; Occ: Cowman; Res: - Morden Slepe Census Place: Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England

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Birth:
Kevin Crumpler website shows that Richard Crumpler was born in Poole, Dorset

Richard married Mary Elizabeth Langdown on 26 Dec 1876 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England. Mary was born in 1855-1856 in Lychett Matravers, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Charity Mary Talbot. Charity was born in ABT. 1834 in Holton, Dorset, England; died in AFT. 1861 in Census for Lychett Matravers, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter

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Died:
A COUNTRY TRAGEDY
By Beau Parke

Samuel Crumpler paid the price for being so nice
and trusting with his bull;
He walked the field that blistering Summer's day
whilst checking acreage and gauging chores
unmindful of his young and powerful charge.
Then suddenly the animal took pace
and rushed and roared and snorted t'wards his face,
whilst Sam stepped back, yet still believed
the bull was easy to contain:
But on it went, momentum built
to such a speed and strength that Sam, alarmed,
tried frantic'ly to reach for branches of the nearby oak,
but failed to get the leverage he needed now
to avoid its frenzied, maddened surge;
He yelled in terrifying pain as he was pinned against
the trunk and gored relentlessly by this unreal, unreasoning
monster that he'd fed and nurtured from a calf;
The blood was spurting forth as sweat and slime and slaver
from the bull was intermixed with gore,
and bones were crushed till Samuel Crumpler's broken frame
was tossed into the air, now cruelly
scythed and crunched beyond all comprehension.

His sorrowing widow and nine sons and daughters
saw him laid to rest a few days later
in the Village Churchyard, knowing that local history
had been made at his expense for trusting that
young bull and lowering his guard.
Samuel Crumpler, wheelwright, carpenter and sometime farmer died,
aged fifty-five, in 1849; a kind and strong and gallant,
some say foolish, family man.

Samuel married Louisa Bartlett on 16 Jul 1823 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England. Louisa was born in 1807 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England; died in 1857 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England; was buried on 05 Nov 1857 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Kevin Crumpler's website shows date of birth as 1805.